[bug#28516] Cinnamon-Desktop (a package, not the full desktop!)

[ng0]

ng0 transcribed 2.5K bytes:
> Christopher Baines transcribed 1.8K bytes:
> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:23:14 +0000
> > ng0 <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > This adds 'cinnamon-desktop', the start for Cinnamon.
> > 
> > Hey ng0,
> > 
> > I don't know much about Cinnamon, is there a way I could test this
> > package, or is it not much use until more cinnamon related packages
> > are added? 
> 
> As far as I know it's not much use until more of Cinnamon is added.
> Why I didn't include more is a bug report I filed at upstream. As I got
> no response it's up to myself to do some more reading into Cinnamon itself
> to understand the way they build it. The first obvious attempts failed,
> but lots of things I work on have a long history already.
> 
> We can only start to correct things at the foundation when we have the
> architecture to realize it doesn't fit. Right now I believe that building
> without errors is the best we can do.
> 
> > guix lint resports some issues:
> > 
> > gnu/packages/cinnamon.scm:38:2: address@hidden: 'glib:bin' should probably 
> > be a native input
> > gnu/packages/cinnamon.scm:82:14: address@hidden: synopsis should not start 
> > with the package name
> > gnu/packages/cinnamon.scm:38:2: address@hidden: trailing white space on 
> > line 60
> 
> Okay, thanks I'll send fixes within the next 7 days.

Updated patch appended.

> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Chris
> 
> 
> 
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